358 THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 



Tree large, vigorous, round-topped, open, hardy, productive; trunk slightly 

 roughened; branches stocky, smooth, with lenticels of medium number and size; 

 branchlets thick, long, with long intemodes, greenish-red changing to brownish-drab, 

 with green patches and considerable scarf-skin, somewhat glossy, sparingly pubescent 

 throughout the season, with small lenticels; leaf-buds large, long, pointed, appressed; 

 leaf-scars prominent. 



Leaves folded backward, oval or obovate, one and three-quarters inches wide, 

 three and one-half inches long, thick, stiff; upper surface dark green, rugose, sparingly 

 hairy, with a grooved midrib; lower surface silvery-green, with thick pubescence; apex 

 abruptly pointed to acute, base acute, margin crenate, eglandular or with small, brown 

 glands; petiole five-eighths inch long, thick, tinged red along one side, hairy, glandless 

 or with one or two rather large, globose, brownish glands variable in position. 



Blooming season early to medium, short; flowers appearing after the leaves, one 

 inch or more across, white, the buds tinged yellow; borne on lateral spurs; pedicels 

 one-half inch long, thick, pubescent, greenish; calyx- tube green, often with a swelling 

 around the base, campanulate, pubescent; calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, pubescent on 

 both surfaces, with thick, marginal hairs, erect; petals roundish-oval, entire, tapering 

 to short, broad claws; anthers large, yellow; filaments five-sixteenths inch long; 

 pistil pubescent at the base, equal to the stamens in length; stigma large. 



Fruit intermediate in time and length of ripening season; one and three-quarters 

 inches by one and five-eighths inches in size, roundish-truncate or roundish-oblong, 

 with irregular surface which is somewhat ridged, halves equal; cavity narrow, abrupt, 

 slightly compressed; suture variable in depth, distinct; apex deeply depressed; color 

 dark reddish-purple, overspread with thick bloom; dots numerous, variable in size, 

 whitish, conspicuous, clustered about the apex; stem thick, three-eighths inch long, 

 pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin tough, adhering slightly to the pulp; flesh 

 dark golden-yellow, somewhat dry, coarse, tough, firm, sweet, mild but pleasant; of 

 good quality; stone clinging, seven-eighths inch by five-eighths inch in size, irregular- 

 oval, flattened, obliquely necked, blunt at the apex, with deeply pitted surfaces, 

 roughish; ventral suture prominent, heavily furrowed, not winged; dorsal suture 

 usually with a narrow, shallow groove. 



TRAGEDY 



Primus domestica 



I. Cal. State Bd. Hort. 236, PI. II fig. 5, 237. 1890. 2. Ibid. 109 fig. S. 1S91. 3. "Wickson 

 Cal. Fruits 358. 1891. 4. iV. Mex. Sta. Bid. 27:125. 1898. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 40. 1S99. 

 6. Waugh Plum. Cult. 124. 1901. 



Tragedy Pmne i, 3, 4. 



Tragedy is another western plum which, Hke the Tennant, has not 

 been well tested in the East. It is an older plum than the Tennant and 

 somewhat better known in New York but still the reports of it are not 

 sufficient in number or of great enough range to enable a fair opinion to 



